1. Why did the Comanche Apache people call the Apache people "ta-ashi?
The Comanche Apache people called the Apache people "ta-ashi", which means "turned up", because the toes of their mocassins were curled upward.
2. What do the designs on the Apache baskets represent?
The burden baskets of the Apache tribe are the most easily recognized. Darker colored plants are woven into lighter colored ones to make designs. Cultural symbols, animals, human forms or butterflies are usually designs on a basket. Other geometric shapes that represent lightning and mountains are also used.
3. Why are the Apache famous for their beads and basketry?
The Apache are famous for their basketry, like many other tribes around there, because their women have been very good at making them.
Craftmanship
Baskets
The Apache are well known for their women's basket making. They made baskets made of yucca, sumac, mulberry, and willow wood, each of which is a different color. They used the coiling and twining technique to make the baskets. They would also make patterns in the baskets. Tus baskets were insulated with pitch, which is made from, like mud, pinon pine, to make it waterproof.
The women put all their possessions in the baskets when traveling to a new home. They hung the baskets across their back and shoulders. Some baskets were used to carry heavy loads or store food. Tus baskets were used to carry water.
Clothes
Before the Mexicans came into the Apache territory, the men wore deerskin that hung from their waist to their knees, called a loin cloth, while woman wore wraparound deerskin skirts and simple ponchos as shirts. The clothes were usually decorated with long fringes. They both wore knee high tanned skin moccasins with hard soles and curled up toes. The Apache were also famous for their boots, decorated with fringe or silver conchos. Thye traded them with their neighbours for things like salt, blankets and guns. They mostly lived in the desert., where it is warm. In cold weather, they both wore buckskin ponchos. The men hunted the animals for their skin and meat. The skins made tepees, beddings and clothing. The meat was for food. It took a long time for the woman to prepare animal skin to make clothing. First, she'd soak the skin in water, and then she'd scrape the skin to remove the hair. Then she'd make a paste from deer brains and fat to make soften the skin. When the skin was soft and dry, she'd cut out shirts, skirts and moccasins, and sew them together with sinew, a fiber that connects bone to muscle. After they had made them they would draw or paint sacred patterns on them. After they had done that the buckskin was called sacred buckskin.
Even though the Apache normally had fairly long, thick, black hair, both the men and women rarely wore their hair up. Instead of wearing a feathered headdress, the men would wear deerskin headbands, except during ceremonies in which they would where large headdress.
After the Mexican came into the Apache territory they started to dress more like the Americans, which wore colorful cotton clothing. When the Europeans came, the Apache wore cotton shirts and skirts. The women wore petticoats under their skirts.
Annotated Bibliography
McCall, Barbara A., "Native American People:The Apaches" Vero Beach, Florida: Rourke Publications Inc. 1990 .
This book covers a lot of ground in terms of the Apaches. It has a lot of information about hunting, gathering, food, baskets, clothing, ceremonies, beliefs, bands, and chiefs. It is not easy to read but it is also not very hard to read. The pictures are also good. I used this book to find out a lot of information about baskets and clothing. This book gave us a ton of information. Most of the information in our wiki came form this book.
This book only has a page about baskets and hardly anything about clothing. The text was a pretty easy to read. The photos helped us understand it better. We got some of our information on baskets from this book.
Lund, Bill, "The Apache Indians" Mankato, Minnesota: Capstone Press, 1998.
The text was large and easy to read. One page sized picture is on every other page. It helps understand the text. This book covered the lifestyle of the Apache tribe. It was understandable for us and perhaps younger children too.
Santella, Andrew. The Apache. Mankato, Minnesota: Capstone Press, 2003
The text is very large and easy to understand, possibly easy enough for small children to understand. It has an entire page on baskets and a little bit on clothes. All the photos are the of at least half a page and have easy to read captions for each picture.
Worth, Richard. American Indians: The Apache. Enslow Publishers, 2005
In this book the text is fairly small but east to understand. It has a small bit about baskets but it does have 2 pages about clothes. It has a lot of pictures but most of them are not very large. The picture of the basket on page 30 helped us form the basket. It gave us an idea of what it should have looked like.
This site could be easy for anyone to read. The pictures didn't help, because there were only a few. At the beginning of the page, there is some information on wickiups, great for people studying shelter. If you scroll down, you can read a paragraph on Apache clothing. We got some of our information from this site. At the bottom right hand corner, there is a rectangle with the word "Continue" on it. If you click it, you are brought to a new page on Apache food, customs and art. Scroll down, and in the art section there is a paragraph on basketry. We got a lot of our information from the basket section. This was a great site.
This site hardly had anything at all. There were only 2 paragraphs with about 5 sentences in each one. The text is very large and easy to read. There was little information on clothing and no information on craftsmanship. There was a little info on their location, but we didn't need it. Even though there wasn't much on clothing, we still used a bit of it in the wiki. I would like the author to write more.
Table of Contents
Craftsmanship and Clothes
Essential Questions
1. Why did the Comanche Apache people call the Apache people "ta-ashi?
The Comanche Apache people called the Apache people "ta-ashi", which means "turned up", because the toes of their mocassins were curled upward.
2. What do the designs on the Apache baskets represent?
The burden baskets of the Apache tribe are the most easily recognized. Darker colored plants are woven into lighter colored ones to make designs. Cultural symbols, animals, human forms or butterflies are usually designs on a basket. Other geometric shapes that represent lightning and mountains are also used.
3. Why are the Apache famous for their beads and basketry?
The Apache are famous for their basketry, like many other tribes around there, because their women have been very good at making them.
Baskets
The Apache are well known for their women's basket making. They made baskets made of yucca, sumac, mulberry, and willow wood, each of which is a different color. They used the coiling and twining technique to make the baskets. They would also make patterns in the baskets. Tus baskets were insulated with pitch, which is made from, like mud, pinon pine, to make it waterproof.The women put all their possessions in the baskets when traveling to a new home. They hung the baskets across their back and shoulders. Some baskets were used to carry heavy loads or store food. Tus baskets were used to carry water.
Clothes
Before the Mexicans came into the Apache territory, the men wore deerskin that hung from their waist to their knees, called a loin cloth, while woman wore wraparound deerskin skirts and simple ponchos as shirts. The clothes were usually decorated with long fringes. They both wore knee high tanned skin moccasins with hard soles and curled up toes. The Apache were also famous for their boots, decorated with fringe or silver conchos. Thye traded them with their neighbours for things like salt, blankets and guns. They mostly lived in the desert., where it is warm. In cold weather, they both wore buckskin ponchos. The men hunted the animals for their skin and meat. The skins made tepees, beddings and clothing. The meat was for food. It took a long time for the woman to prepare animal skin to make clothing. First, she'd soak the skin in water, and then she'd scrape the skin to remove the hair. Then she'd make a paste from deer brains and fat to make soften the skin. When the skin was soft and dry, she'd cut out shirts, skirts and moccasins, and sew them together with sinew, a fiber that connects bone to muscle. After they had made them they would draw or paint sacred patterns on them. After they had done that the buckskin was called sacred buckskin.
Even though the Apache normally had fairly long, thick, black hair, both the men and women rarely wore their hair up. Instead of wearing a feathered headdress, the men would wear deerskin headbands, except during ceremonies in which they would where large headdress.
After the Mexican came into the Apache territory they started to dress more like the Americans, which wore colorful cotton clothing. When the Europeans came, the Apache wore cotton shirts and skirts. The women wore petticoats under their skirts.
Annotated Bibliography
- McCall, Barbara A., "Native American People: The Apaches" Vero Beach, Florida: Rourke Publications Inc. 1990 .
This book covers a lot of ground in terms of the Apaches. It has a lot of information about hunting, gathering, food, baskets, clothing, ceremonies, beliefs, bands, and chiefs. It is not easy to read but it is also not very hard to read. The pictures are also good. I used this book to find out a lot of information about baskets and clothing. This book gave us a ton of information. Most of the information in our wiki came form this book.- Englar, Mary, "American Indians Nations: The Apache" Mankato, Minnesota: Capstone Press, 2003.
This book only has a page about baskets and hardly anything about clothing. The text was a pretty easy to read. The photos helped us understand it better. We got some of our information on baskets from this book.- Lund, Bill, "The Apache Indians" Mankato, Minnesota: Capstone Press, 1998.
The text was large and easy to read. One page sized picture is on every other page. It helps understand the text. This book covered the lifestyle of the Apache tribe. It was understandable for us and perhaps younger children too.- Santella, Andrew. The Apache. Mankato, Minnesota: Capstone Press, 2003
The text is very large and easy to understand, possibly easy enough for small children to understand. It has an entire page on baskets and a little bit on clothes. All the photos are the of at least half a page and have easy to read captions for each picture.- Worth, Richard. American Indians: The Apache. Enslow Publishers, 2005
In this book the text is fairly small but east to understand. It has a small bit about baskets but it does have 2 pages about clothes. It has a lot of pictures but most of them are not very large. The picture of the basket on page 30 helped us form the basket. It gave us an idea of what it should have looked like.- "Apache." 12 Dec. 2008 http://www.mce.k12tn.net/indians/reports2/apache.htm
This site could be easy for anyone to read. The pictures didn't help, because there were only a few. At the beginning of the page, there is some information on wickiups, great for people studying shelter. If you scroll down, you can read a paragraph on Apache clothing. We got some of our information from this site. At the bottom right hand corner, there is a rectangle with the word "Continue" on it. If you click it, you are brought to a new page on Apache food, customs and art. Scroll down, and in the art section there is a paragraph on basketry. We got a lot of our information from the basket section. This was a great site.- "Clothing, Climate and Geography." 12 Dec. 2008 http://library.thinkquest.org/5731/clothing.html>
This site hardly had anything at all. There were only 2 paragraphs with about 5 sentences in each one. The text is very large and easy to read. There was little information on clothing and no information on craftsmanship. There was a little info on their location, but we didn't need it. Even though there wasn't much on clothing, we still used a bit of it in the wiki. I would like the author to write more.